i don't enjoy playing with other teenagers. all they care about is their social lives.
Ah the search for awakening. Mine started around the age of 14 after my mother (as i've mentioned before) was diagnosed with schizophrenia, it started with a simple curiosity: what is her disease? it lead to more questions of the mind and ended up reading alot of psychology at a very young age, these concepts also lead me to ask: why does she believe she can hear angels and demons? so i also did a pretty extensive study on world religions. religion lead me to philosophy, and read from the ancient greeks and to the robert green...all of this lead me to the question of: why are we here? what is our purpose?
It's an answer that people have theorised about for years. I know I don't have the answer. I have my speculations just like the next guy. but in the end I've simply found... life is for living, gathering and cultivating new experiences... to be a conscious observer... life is devine.
i rather like who i've become, had i not experienced the things i have in life. i would be significantly more... normal and boring... who would want to be that?
our scars define us, those that live a coddled life rarely do anything with it. they fear life, because they've never really understood emotional and physical pain.
by Luna Prey
Sure Emily, thanks!
May I ask what the website is?
May I ask what the website is?Hi Luna. The website being transferred to a new team is http://www.worth1000.com One of my illustrator friends there, who had capital to invest in a replacement site, is still at odds with some admins there and is open to new ideas. I will ask her again to check out this forum and your other website(s). If I could just find the right people to connect together, I think a lot more could come from that unrealized talent and creative synergy.
I applaud your concerns and posts about problems with capitalism - the same human selfishness can corrupt any system. People blame whichever group they can see causing damage. So together, we could check and balance all groups if we'd listen and help each other as peers, not enemies competing to demonize.
All systems can be useful for good or for bad, depending on context and use.
If you are interested in independent currency that promotes community building, equal value of labor, and cooperative business, Paul Glover of the Green Party has mentored many communities and even small towns in setting up their own local currency and business networks, so there is greater respect for accountability in how money is invested and the exchange of resources:http://www.ithacahours.com or http://www.ithacahours.org
This system is limited to geographic region; but similar systems like the Times Bank in DC manage bartering by database instead of currency. If people have a common goal, and vested interest in sustaining, the abuses can be kept minimal. If people have no loyalty to answer to each other, better to form their own group.
Again any system or institution tends toward corruption and abuse when the members aren't held equally accountable. The most we can do is find which systems or which people we CAN work with as equals to manage resources, and invest there. Some people may choose to identify as socialists, or capitalists, as this religious or political group or that one; but the point is to have a system of accountability for representing interests (and resolving conflicts or correcting abuses when these arise) so people can work in groups to achieve goals.
